Creating “work bubbles” for the COVID-19 pandemic can help reduce the threat of outbreaks across the enterprise while helping critical companies continue to operate, as shown in Bombardier Aviation’s example in research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ).
The desire to remain an essential business open to the pandemic has led to primary epidemics in factories and other places where painters paint nearby, jeopardizing the protection of painters and networked paintings and altering chains of origin.
Employers have a duty to provide a safe paint environment for their employees. Creating commercial cohorts, or paint bubbles, can reduce the threat of an enterprise-wide COVID-19 outbreak that can affect network paints as a whole. “
The authors describe how Bombardier Aviation, a giant Canadian company that employs another 22,000 people in 7 factories in four provinces/states of Canada and the United States, adapted to the pandemic. Most workplace staff worked from home, making sure that only the staff who built or delivered the aircraft were on site. Basic staff were organized into groups that interacted only with others to minimize contact with other staff members.
The cohorts were organized according to the principles that paint bubbles should
Planning the days of rotating paints and disinfecting shared spaces after use through a bubble of paintings can ensure the physical separation of painters. Daily detection of symptoms and immediate isolation of inflamed painters can also involve you and prevent outbreaks.
“Adapting our operational activities to the pandemic is a challenge, but we are incredibly proud of the proactivity and effectiveness of our groups to adapt to their new operating conditions. Ensuring the protection of our workers is our number one priority,” says co-author Nancy Barbero, COO, Industrialization, Footprint and Central Planning, Bombardier Aviation.
Despite some challenges, paint bubbles offer advantages, including
“As we begin with public fitness measures put in position to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Canada, we want to think about how to restrict the threat of fitting inflamed into the paint position,” says Dr. Shaw. The bubble strategy can help companies continue to function and ensure the safety of painters. “
Listen to a podcast with the co-authors, Dr. Jeffrey Shaw and Hayley Wickenheiser, who analyze paint bubbles and their practical application in factories and sports.
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